January 2009 (Page 3)

In her first novel for young adults, Shackleton’s Stowawayauthor Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and the beauty of the frontier West.  This action-filled book is engaging, accurate, heartbreaking and hopeful. In The Devil’s Paintboxwe travel from a ruined Kansas homestead to the logging camps outside Seattle, WA in 1865.  Aiden and Maddy Lynch are the 16 & 13 year old survivors of a family wiped out by the harsh homesteading life and when the story opens they are slowly starving to death after a long, frigid winter.  An unlikely savior appears to them in the form of Jefferson J. Jackson, who is searching forRead More →